"Verizon Wireless won’t offer a device at the planned fall introduction or at any point this year, Brenda Raney, a Verizon spokeswoman, said today in an interview," Bloomberg's Dina Bass and Amy Thomson write. "The carrier plans to support the new operating system and will probably release a phone in 2011, she said."

It's not entirely clear what's going on here -- if Microsoft is dissing Verizon, or if Verizon is dissing Microsoft.

We assume Microsoft wanted as much launch support as possible, which, we assume, would include the no. 1 U.S. carrier. So this seems like a big diss to Microsoft, which is Verizon's search partner.

But Microsoft could have also decided itself to skip Verizon for its launch. Maybe Microsoft just wanted to launch with major support from AT&T and other GSM-based carriers around the world? Or it blamed Verizon for the Kin disaster?